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{{Infobox political party|name=Infrared|logo=Infraglobe (2023).png|founded=2020|position=21st Century Marxism-Leninism}} | |||
'''Infrared''', officially '''The Infrared Collective''', is a Marxist-Leninist media collective and internet community whose main representative is currently the livestreamer [[Haz]]. Its main output is the '''Infrared Show''', which has been censored by Twitch but is still available on [https://www.youtube.com/@InfraredShow YouTube] and [https://kick.com/infrared Kick]. | '''Infrared''', officially '''The Infrared Collective''', is a Marxist-Leninist media collective and internet community whose main representative is currently the livestreamer [[Haz]]. Its main output is the '''Infrared Show''', which has been censored by Twitch but is still available on [https://www.youtube.com/@InfraredShow YouTube] and [https://kick.com/infrared Kick]. | ||
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According to Infrared, the theoretical contributions of Marxist-Leninist statesmen and thinkers, regarded by Western academics and vogue 'Marxians' as simplistic and vulgar, represent an integral historical brilliance, genius, and wisdom that only the most advanced conceptual apparatuses available to the Western mind can properly comprehend. | According to Infrared, the theoretical contributions of Marxist-Leninist statesmen and thinkers, regarded by Western academics and vogue 'Marxians' as simplistic and vulgar, represent an integral historical brilliance, genius, and wisdom that only the most advanced conceptual apparatuses available to the Western mind can properly comprehend. | ||
With the rise of [[multipolarity]] and the end of 500 years of Western hegemony, a comprehensive re-examination of the basic assumptions of Western thinking and the way this thinking has obscured the study of Marxism-Leninism is necessary. Additionally, with the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what certainly appears to be the transition into a new mode of production, Marxism-Leninism must ultimately be re-synthesized in a way that fully appreciates a now uncharted | With the rise of [[multipolarity]] and the end of 500 years of Western hegemony, a comprehensive re-examination of the basic assumptions of Western thinking and the way this thinking has obscured the study of Marxism-Leninism is necessary. Additionally, with the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what certainly appears to be the transition into a new mode of production, Marxism-Leninism must ultimately be re-synthesized in a way that fully appreciates a now uncharted new historical era. | ||
== A New Beginning for Western Marxism == | == A New Beginning for Western Marxism == | ||
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Infrared regards the Marxist-Leninist conception of the nation to have borrowed from Social-Democracy, and narrowly confined to the paradigm of the nation-state. Such a view is 'euro-centric' and historically has yielded mixed results as far as satisfying the authentic national aspirations of non-Western peoples for whom the paradigm of the nation-state amounts to balkanization and the destruction of otherwise integral, multi-ethnic civilizations. Lenin's national policy deserves critical examination. It is clear that the Soviet Union and even today's Russia amounts to an integral Eurasian civilization irreducible to any 'nation-state.' | Infrared regards the Marxist-Leninist conception of the nation to have borrowed from Social-Democracy, and narrowly confined to the paradigm of the nation-state. Such a view is 'euro-centric' and historically has yielded mixed results as far as satisfying the authentic national aspirations of non-Western peoples for whom the paradigm of the nation-state amounts to balkanization and the destruction of otherwise integral, multi-ethnic civilizations. Lenin's national policy deserves critical examination. It is clear that the Soviet Union and even today's Russia amounts to an integral Eurasian civilization irreducible to any 'nation-state.' | ||
==== | ==== Social Conservatism ==== | ||
Infrared, in continuation with its rejection of 'Western Marxism,' likewise rejects 'leftist' cultural politics and | Infrared, in continuation with its rejection of 'Western Marxism,' likewise rejects 'leftist' cultural politics, including LGBT, Feminist, cultural 'decolonization' (in Western contexts), and other such 'new trends.' | ||
Infrared can be broadly regarded as socially conservative in the same sense that Communist states were historically. This does not amount to a one-sided view that all aspects of culture deserve to be preserved, or that there can be no progress in the sphere of culture. | Infrared can be broadly regarded as socially conservative, in the same sense that Communist states were historically. This does not amount to a one-sided view that all aspects of culture deserve to be preserved, or that there can be no progress in the sphere of culture. | ||
It amounts to a basic humanist view which rejects the voluntarist liquidation and 'social engineering' of human culture. Infrared regards the development of culture to be based on the objective and total integration of history, and rejects attempts to liquidate the wealth of historical traditions at the disposal of mankind on account of the narrow and superficial view that they are 'unjust' or 'problematic.' | It amounts to a basic humanist view, which rejects the voluntarist liquidation and 'social engineering' of human culture. Infrared regards the development of culture to be based on the objective and total integration of history, and rejects attempts to liquidate the wealth of historical traditions at the disposal of mankind on account of the narrow and superficial view that they are 'unjust' or 'problematic.' | ||
The overall rejection of historical nihilism means that Infrared, while not turning conservatism into an 'ideology,' is socially conservative in the sense that it regards the wisdoms of historical experience to be a fundamental foundation of human culture. This is a 'conservatism' based not on any abstract idea, but on the conservation of the integrity of history. | The overall rejection of historical nihilism means that Infrared, while not turning conservatism into an 'ideology,' is socially conservative in the sense that it regards the wisdoms of historical experience to be a fundamental foundation of human culture. This is a 'conservatism' based not on any abstract idea, but based on the conservation of the integrity of history. | ||
While culture changes, it does not change according to the whims of 'activists,' 'academics,' and 'social engineers,' but based on an organic receptivity between the people, society, technology and nature. Authentic culture is conducive to the reproduction of civilizations, societies, families, and well-rounded individuals | While culture changes, it does not change according to the whims of 'activists,' 'academics,' and 'social engineers,' but based on an organic receptivity between the people, society, technology and nature. Authentic culture is conducive to the reproduction of civilizations, societies, families, and well-rounded individuals. Thus Infrared rejects the 'punk rock' and 'romantic' infantilism of 'Western leftists.' | ||
== Technology, Industrialism, and Accelerationism == | == Technology, Industrialism, and Accelerationism == | ||
Infrared is to a limited extent, and with deep critical reservations, influenced by the ideas of British philosopher Nick Land and the schools of thought influenced by him. | Infrared is to a limited extent, and with deep critical reservations, influenced by the ideas of British philosopher Nick Land and the schools of thought influenced by him. | ||
What Infrared adopts from the 'accelerationist' view is the irreducibility of the productive forces and the scale of time at which their development occurs to the narrow limits of 'inter-subjective discourse.' However Infrared simultaneously rejects the view that the productive forces accelerate at the expense of humanity | What Infrared adopts from the 'accelerationist' view is the irreducibility of the productive forces, and the scale of time at which their development occurs, to the narrow limits of 'inter-subjective discourse.' However Infrared simultaneously rejects the view that the productive forces accelerate at the expense of humanity all-together, electing instead to reexamine Western assumptions about the nature of humanity. | ||
For Infrared, Western assumptions about the state likewise deserve critical reexamination. Rather than an 'intersubjective social contract' or amalgamation of 'inter-subjective relations,' Infrared regards the ''universal state'' (Kojeve) as an objective integration of all history. The acceleration of the productive forces thus occurs ''in time'' at the same scale that the universal state exists ''in space.'' This gives Landian accelerationism a geopolitical twist, which opens a new frontier of dialogue between accelerationist thinking and geopolitical thinkers like Dugin. | For Infrared, Western assumptions about the state likewise deserve critical reexamination. Rather than an 'intersubjective social contract' or amalgamation of 'inter-subjective relations,' Infrared regards the ''universal state'' (Kojeve) as an objective integration of all history. The acceleration of the productive forces thus occurs ''in time'' at the same scale that the universal state exists ''in space.'' This gives Landian accelerationism a geopolitical twist, which opens a new frontier of dialogue between accelerationist thinking and geopolitical thinkers like Dugin. | ||
Infrared recognizes the content of Communism to lie in the development of the productive forces, which, moreover | Infrared recognizes the content of Communism to lie in the development of the productive forces, which, moreover participate in the essence of historical development itself. Rather than accept the accelerationist critique of universal humanism outright, Infrared regards it as necessary to develop a new conception of what universal humanity ''is'' in the first place, from an ''individual'' to a ''collective'' and ''super-historical'' being. | ||
==== Rejection of Green Politics ==== | ==== Rejection of Green Politics ==== | ||
While accepting the basic insights of ecological thinking and Xi Jinping's notion of | While accepting the basic insights of ecological thinking, and Xi Jinping's notion of ecological thinking, Infrared rejects 'green politics' as the one-sided elevation of nature over industrial civilization. | ||
'' | Additionally, Infrared rejects the peculiar ''aestheticization'' of nature corresponding to green politics, which effectively reduces nature to the 'vibrant' and 'colorful' biosphere. Infrared rather believes a stronger emphasis should be played, in ecological thinking, upon the destructive geological and cosmological forces that are simultaneously the basis of natural development. | ||
Most importantly, Infrared fiercely opposes the resurgence of Malthusianism and 'degrowth' paradigms, which reject industrial and technological civilization on the basis of a superficial 'anti-capitalism.' For this reason, many have mistakenly over-exaggerated the influence of Lyndon LaRouche's critique of neo-Malthusianism on Infrared, despite Karl Marx's own well-known critique of Malthus and views on industrial civilization. | |||
Infrared rejects both 'green' and 'technological' utopias, accepting the rugged contradictions of both technological civilization and nature itself to be the fundamental basis of human and historical development. It regards these 'dreams' as infantile attempts to escape responsibility for the concrete development of the productive forces. While Infrared embraces the aestheticization of the latter, such an aesthetics, even those speculative, must be grounded in a minimal realism. | Infrared rejects both 'green' and 'technological' utopias, accepting the rugged contradictions of both technological civilization and nature itself to be the fundamental basis of human and historical development. It regards these 'dreams' as infantile attempts to escape responsibility for the concrete development of the productive forces. While Infrared embraces the aestheticization of the latter, such an aesthetics, even those speculative, must be grounded in a minimal realism. | ||
==== Promotion of Science Fiction ==== | ==== Promotion of Science Fiction ==== | ||
Infrared's aesthetic orientation heavily draws from the science fiction genre, drawing from Landian notions of time and hyperstition as well as an interpretation of the present orientation of Chinese cinema. According to Haz Al-Din, contemporary socialist realism must be based on science fiction as the realization of the future has become an ever-present, unavoidable and objective realty. | Infrared's aesthetic orientation heavily draws from the science fiction genre, drawing from Landian notions of time and hyperstition, as well as an interpretation of the present orientation of Chinese cinema. According to Haz Al-Din, contemporary socialist realism must be based on science fiction as the realization of the future has become an ever-present, unavoidable and objective realty. | ||
How the future is being realized, related to and imagined is an unavoidable part of the post-capitalist civilization humanity has long begun to transition into. Infrared views the purpose of contemporary art to lie in giving expression to the lofty aspirations of humanity, as long as they do not serve as a medium with which to escape the contradictions of reality rather than reconcile them. | How the future is being realized, related to and imagined is an unavoidable part of the post-capitalist civilization humanity has long begun to transition into. Infrared views the purpose of contemporary art to lie in giving expression to the lofty aspirations of humanity, as long as they do not serve as a medium with which to escape the contradictions of reality rather than reconcile them. | ||
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Chinese science fiction artist Fan Wennan was among the first to be interviewed by Infrared, even before Haz began livestreaming.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhooFz-Tfz8</ref> | Chinese science fiction artist Fan Wennan was among the first to be interviewed by Infrared, even before Haz began livestreaming.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhooFz-Tfz8</ref> | ||
==== Views on | ==== Views on Social Parasitism and Intellectual Property ==== | ||
Infrared strongly approves recent trends in the development and promotion of AI-generated art, regarding them as objective and irreversible developments of both the productive forces and technological civilization. It rejects 'criticisms' of AI-generated art as inherently and self-evidently reactionary by every possible standard or metric one may use within the tradition of Marxism. | Infrared strongly approves recent trends in the development and promotion of AI-generated art, regarding them as objective and irreversible developments of both the productive forces and technological civilization. It rejects 'criticisms' of AI-generated art as inherently and self-evidently reactionary by every possible standard or metric one may use within the tradition of Marxism. | ||
Infrared rejects the 'grievances' of 'artists' as legitimate grounds for class struggle. It rejects artists as a 'class,' regarding such a relation to the productive forces as parasitic. Infrared rejects that artists, writers, and other 'creative workers' are 'entitled' to anything on the basis of their 'work' whatsoever, viewing art as a privilege only those willing to struggle and make sacrifices are worthy of. | Infrared rejects the 'grievances' of 'artists' as legitimate grounds for class struggle. It rejects artists as a 'class,' regarding such a relation to the productive forces as parasitic. Infrared rejects that artists, writers, and other 'creative workers' are 'entitled' to anything on the basis of their 'work' whatsoever, viewing art as a privilege only those willing to struggle and make sacrifices are worthy of. | ||
As such, Infrared fiercely opposes the 'labor organizing' of Hollywood writers and Netflix employees as mockeries of the labor movement. In Infrared's view, no amount of 'organizing' or 'protesting' can make up for a lack of sufficient taste and talent. | As such, Infrared fiercely opposes the 'labor organizing' of Hollywood writers and Netflix employees as mockeries of the labor movement. In Infrared's view, no amount of 'organizing' or 'protesting' can make up for a lack of sufficient taste and talent. | ||
==== Views on Service Workers ==== | ==== Views on Service Workers ==== | ||
In contrast to the lies propagated by mentally ill 'leftists,' Infrared does not oppose service workers. Rather, it opposes the 'labor strategy' according to which the institutionalization of 'bullshit jobs' | In contrast to the lies propagated by mentally ill 'leftists,' Infrared does not oppose service workers. Rather, it opposes the 'labor strategy' according to which the institutionalization of 'bullshit jobs' can sufficiently represent the aspirations of general labor. | ||
Rather than be conducive to a movement of 'general labor,' the institutionalization of bullshit jobs, such as Starbucks baristas, amounts to craft-unionism | Rather than be conducive to a movement of 'general labor,' the institutionalization of bullshit jobs, such as Starbucks baristas, amounts to craft-unionism. | ||
Infrared also regards it as opportunistic and self-serving that 'leftists' commit to 'organizing' graduate students, baristas, and | Infrared also regards it as opportunistic and self-serving that 'leftists' commit to 'organizing' graduate students, baristas, and hollywood writers, not because these groups are the most strategically important for the labor movement, but because they tend to reinforce 'leftist' discursive and cultural bubbles - to the detriment of the aspirations of general labor. | ||
While Infrared rejects the view that service workers create capital on the shop floor, or are 'proletarians' in the context of the shop floor, | While Infrared rejects the view that service workers create capital on the shop floor, or are 'proletarians' in the context of the shop floor, it does not oppose service workers. It rather believes that the interests of general labor and service workers in general must revolve around the destruction of 'bullshit jobs' all together, by politicizing the demand for a shorter work-week, automation of the service industry, and reindustrialization. | ||
Infrared does not view this as hostility to those struggling to make a living working in the service industry. It rather regards the destruction of the service industry itself to be in the interests of both service workers and ''general labor'' as a whole. Infrared likewise does not view the 'organizing' of prostitutes to be in the interests of the majority of the victims of the sex trade. It rather regards the wholesale abolition of the sex industry as in the best interests of its victims. | Infrared does not view this as hostility to those struggling to make a living working in the service industry. It rather regards the destruction of the service industry itself to be in the interests of both service workers and ''general labor'' as a whole. Infrared likewise does not view the 'organizing' of prostitutes to be in the interests of the majority of the victims of the sex trade. It rather regards the wholesale abolition of the sex industry as in the best interests of its victims. | ||
== Content == | == Content == | ||
One of the core tenets of Infrared's theories is that most [[Communism|Communists]], in the West, miss the sense of objectivity that made Eastern [[Marxism|Marxists]] successful. The reason for this is that most [[Communism|Communists]] undialectically assume, often unconsciously, that the contradiction that gives rise to [[Socialism]] and [[Communism]] is between the world and its injustices and the socialist/communist experiencing this, while a principled [[Marxism|Marxist]] position would be that the contradiction is | One of the core tenets of Infrared's theories is that most [[Communism|Communists]], in the West, miss the sense of objectivity that made Eastern [[Marxism|Marxists]] successful. The reason for this is that most [[Communism|Communists]] undialectically assume, often unconsciously, that the contradiction that gives rise to [[Socialism]] and [[Communism]] is between the world and its injustices and the socialist/communist experiencing this, while a principled [[Marxism|Marxist]] position would be that the contradiction is inner to the object itself. Instead of trying to understand the material reality of the people, which is the basis of every communist state, western communists are stuck in an abstract idealized form of it. | ||
Another idea of the [[Infrared|Infrared collective]] is that western thinking cannot understand the deeper truth of [[Marxism-Leninism]] because of its origins in | Another idea of the [[Infrared|Infrared collective]] is that western thinking cannot understand the deeper truth of [[Marxism-Leninism]] because of its origins in cartesianism, and that it's only through thinkers like Heidegger (and others influenced by him like [[Kojève]] and [[Dugin]]) that [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] experiences can be truly understood in the west. | ||
Infrared coined the term [[Anglo Box]], which refers to a way of thinking, relating to English philosophy, consisting of the reduction of the meaning of words to a fixed form, like a dictionary definition, which leads to the dogmatic thinking of [[BreadTube|BreadTubers]] like [[Vaush]]. This kind of philosophical illness is directly opposed to the dialectical method of [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and the other prominent [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] thinkers.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGIdrXAGyw&t=140s Vaush knows NOTHING about socialism] - youtube</ref> | Infrared coined the term [[Anglo Box]], which refers to a way of thinking, relating to English philosophy, consisting of the reduction of the meaning of words to a fixed form, like a dictionary definition, which leads to the dogmatic thinking of [[BreadTube|BreadTubers]] like [[Vaush]]. This kind of philosophical illness is directly opposed to the dialectical method of [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and the other prominent [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] thinkers. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGIdrXAGyw&t=140s Vaush knows NOTHING about socialism] - youtube</ref> | ||
Following the assassination of [[Daria Dugina]], Haz delivered a video essay explaining the ideology of [[Alexander Dugin|Dugin]], defending his legacy against accusations of being a "[[fascism|fascist]]" as he's described by the Western corporate media and [[Leftism|Western leftists]].<ref>''[https://youtu.be/bXjkJrk7y98 Aleksandr Dugin: The Most Misunderstood Man in the World]'' by [[Infrared]] | Following the assassination of [[Daria Dugina]], Haz delivered a video essay explaining the ideology of [[Alexander Dugin|Dugin]], defending his legacy against accusations of being a "[[fascism|fascist]]" as he's described by the Western corporate media and [[Leftism|Western leftists]].<ref>''[https://youtu.be/bXjkJrk7y98 Aleksandr Dugin: The Most Misunderstood Man in the World]'' by [[Infrared]] | ||
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* [https://www.reddit.com/r/showinfrared Reddit] | * [https://www.reddit.com/r/showinfrared Reddit] | ||
* [https://t.me/+CH8HjnYj48g3YTc0 Telegram Chat] | * [https://t.me/+CH8HjnYj48g3YTc0 Telegram Chat] | ||
* [https://www.patreon.com/InfraredMedia Patreon] | * [https://www.patreon.com/InfraredMedia Patreon] | ||
* [https://www.donationalerts.com/r/infrared DonationAlerts] | * [https://www.donationalerts.com/r/infrared DonationAlerts] |